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Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort, [1] formerly Oaklawn Park Race Track, is an American thoroughbred racetrack and casino in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is the home to "The Racing Festival of the South", a four-day series of races that concludes with the Arkansas Derby .
The King Cotton Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in February at Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is a Listed race and has also been held as a "Black Type" race. The race is typically six furlongs in length. [2] The race was first ran in 1992. [3]
The event is a prep race to the Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing, including the Kentucky Oaks, Black-Eyed Susan Stakes and Mother Goose Stakes. In 2024 the event was upgraded by the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association back to Grade II.
It takes place at Oaklawn Park Race Track in Hot Springs, Arkansas. During the race, horses age four and older compete over the sprint distance of six furlongs. Inaugurated in 1974, [1] the event currently offers a purse of US$500,000. [2] The race is named in honor of the 1943 United States Triple Crown champion, Count Fleet.
The event immediately became a preparatory event for the Arkansas Derby. The 1965 winner Swift Ruler won both races. In 1984, the conditions of the event were changed from handicap to stakes allowance and the event was renamed the Rebel Stakes. [2] That same year the distance was increased to one and one-sixteenth miles. [3]
The event encountered its third dead heat result in 2009, thirty years after the first dead heat which took place in 1979. [5] With increased revenue from the racino the administration of the track in 2017 began increasing the purse offered for the event. In 2017 the event offered $125,000 and by 2021 an attractive purse of $200,000 was up for ...
Note: Harness racing is sometimes conducted at short-term meets at various fairs and similar events. Many notable harness races are held at such venues, such as the Fox Stake at the Indiana State Fair and the Little Brown Jug at the Delaware County Fairgrounds in Delaware, Ohio .
The Martha Washington Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Oaklawn Park Race Track in Hot Springs, Arkansas.Open to three-year-old fillies, it is contested on dirt over a distance of 1 1/16 mile.